Choral Music

I grew up steeped in the British and American choral traditions – developing a deep love for both high church and Appalachian folk music – and absorbed my first compositional chops at a young age from my choirmaster Richard Wayne Dirksen. My own music combines the long, soaring lines of great cathedral music with the rhythmic subtlety and passion of American traditions. I am most drawn to passionate but introverted texts that explore the innermost thoughts and struggles each of us share.

Trade Winds (choir and percussion ensemble) - information and recording

Song of These States (choir and concert band) - information

A Coptic Requieminformation

Missa Ecclesiaeinformation and recording

Missa Brevisinformation

A Song for Peaceinformation

La rosa blancainformation and recording

And All for Your Love’s Sakeinformation

A Baptismal Lullabyinformation and recording

I Will Lift Up Mine Eyesinformation and recording

Out of the Deep (TTBB) – information and recording

At the Manger (SSAATTBB) – information and recording

My Luve (ATTBB) – information

God Is Our Refuge (choir and organ) – information

Alpha et Omega (choir and tape) – information

When We Gather in Music (choir and piano or organ)

Three Anthems for Unaccompanied Choirsinformation and recording
The Lord Is My Light (SATB)
Who Can Tell (ATB)
Hear My Cry, O God (SA)

http://davidarbury.com/recordings/three-anthems

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    Couch Surfers!

    Ongoing – I am writing music for a very different kind of project: the webseries Couch Surfers! Kind of a little bit of everything (even a Wagnerian forest moment in one episode) but mostly a lot of punk rock surf with guitar help from my friend Carleton Ingram. www.couchsurferstv.com

    May 20-21, 2011

    Taffety Punk Theatre Company presented a new collaboration between myself and choreographer Micheline Heal featuring music for piano, cello, and live computer-generated sound. The new piece, Garden for Wayward Girls was on the finale concert for the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop’s three-week long modern dance event, “Dance Craze”.

    April 28, 2011

    Thursday, April 28, 7:30 PM at Oakdale Emory Church in Olney, MD: the very talented singers performed the new commission A Song for Peace as the first piece on their spring concert.